Posts

Reflections on David Snyder’s book of Buddhist lists, with particular attention to the Brahmaviharas and their near and far enemies.

Early experiments with Stanza for Russian part-of-speech tagging, morphological analysis, and named-entity recognition.

Installing and using UDAR to add syllabic stress marks to Russian text through grammatical analysis.

Why common whitespace escapes fail in macOS sed, and how POSIX character classes provide working alternatives.

A macOS shell script for dividing a large directory into size-limited subdirectories for optical-disc archiving.

Audacity macros for creating slower sentence repetitions so language learners can build toward native-speed pronunciation.

Audacity macros that prepare sentence recordings for chorus repetition by trimming silence, compressing audio, and creating repeated clips.

An updated AppleScript for using the macOS Music app to support chorus repetition in foreign-language pronunciation practice.

EU to ban Americans over coronavirus / John McCain’s 2008 campaign manager with a brutal commentary on Trump.

A reading list and preliminary reflections on meritocracy, individual competence, and the concentration of economic rewards.